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Islamic Presence Reflected in OIC Chief’s Tour of West Africa & Sahel
March 14, 2022
The Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is on a junket through the African member-states in the global Islamic multilateral entity, meeting most recently with Niger’s president to discuss mechanism for promoting Islamic solidarity and action.
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Turkey's Grand Imam Minimizes Femicide & Quotes Quran on Gender Equality
March 13, 2022
The grand imam appointed by Turkey's state leadership to preside over the Hagia Sophia after its conversion from a Byzantine Orthodox Cathedral into a mosque has condemned the term femicide as a media propaganda tool and points to the Quran, rather the human rights law, as the best explanation for the continuing increases in documented femicides and suspicious murders of women in Turkey.
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Bangladesh's Islamist Extremism Problem Shows Al-Qaeda Resilience in South Asia
March 13, 2022
State intelligence and counter-terrorism agencies in Bangladesh are warning about the expanded recruitment and training for operations by Ansar al-Islam Bangladesh (AIB), the local franchise of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), with AIB plans to hit soft targets whose progressive and inclusivist agendas are deemed incompatible with Islamist principles.
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US Treasury's OFAC Sanctions IS Financiers & Facilitators in South Africa for Expanding Islamist Militancy
March 09, 2022
The US. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) recently designated four South Africa-based individuals as facilitators and financiers in criminal activity, including financial extortion, money laundering, and kidnapping for ransom, all towards supporting the organization, recruitment, and operations of IS in Africa, with Treasury's sanction aimed at staunching the spread of Islamist militancy across the African Continent.
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Global Terrorism Index Shows Globalized Islamist Networks, IS as Deadliest Terror Group
March 08, 2022
The 2022 Global Terrorism Index (GTI) produced by internationally-respected, Australia-based think tank, Institute for Economics and Peace, reports on comprehensive empirical evidence that illustrates the reality of globalized Islamist violence, the consolidation of IS and its global franchises as the world's deadliest Islamic terror group, and noted expanding Islamist terror activity in Africa and South Asia given the concentration of weak and failed states in those regions.
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